Bob Odenkirk, who plays the titular character, revealed during a panel at ATX TV Festival on Saturday that one of the camera guys asked him if he could get a job on the sequel while filming his debut episode in Season 2 following a scene in which Odenkirk says, “My real name is McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys.”

“They were way ahead of us,” Gilligan replied. “We saw the episode, we finished it and posted it … and we loved it. We were so happy with it. Peter Gould who created the character and who wrote the episode, you saw his name in the credits. He was over the moon. I was over the moon.”

He added, “We probably started joking about the idea of a Saul Goodman spin-off, one of our camera crew clearly beat us to it, but probably started joking later that season, maybe early season three.”

Following the success of “Breaking Bad,” which won 16 Emmys over five seasons, “Better Call Saul” began production just two days after wrapping the original show.

Odenkirk said of his time on both AMC shows, “One of the great things about show business is if you’re lucky enough to have any kind of career, every once in awhile you find yourself in a really weird place, doing something really strange and you just think of your friends working regular jobs. For me, I’m like, ‘This is the greatest f–king thing in the world.'”